Readers Respond: "One thing I swear I'll NEVER do as a parent is ..."

I take a lot of my parenting cues from how I was raised, my gut instinct and working as a team with my husband. Before I had children I had this idea of how I would like to raise my kids. Certain things I was very set on (like wanting to be at home with them, attachment parenting etc) and other things I knew would likely change along the way.

Parenting is sometimes a day-to-day thing — playing it by the ears and working on the go. There are some things I swore I would never do — yet ended up doing so (swore I would NEVER clean poop off the wall, but yeah, that happened). There are still aspects of parenting I feel strongly I will never do. I know there are other moms and dads out there who feel strongly for how they will parent as well. Babble decided to ask their Facebook readers what they will never do as a parent and some answers were surprising and some were similar to mine.

Click through to see how Babble readers finished the sentence: “One thing I swear I’ll NEVER do as a parent is …”

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